Open Contacts is an advanced address book program for managing contact info of individuals and organizations with relationships.
Distributed as freeware, the program was designed for people who need more beyond legacy address book programs in order to improve dynamic interactions with contacts.
Here are some key features of "Open Contacts":
· Store details in sections of data fields that are dynamically customizable, with predefined data fields.
· Associate individuals with organizations, and link organizations with departments or subsidiaries.
· Categorize contacts in hierarchy... [ read more about Open Contacts >> ] |
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WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.2:
* Improve the way of change log management. From this version, you may use Open Contacts along with SyncML Client for Open Contacts to synchronize contact information with smart phones, PDA and other Web base address books.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.1.1.564:
* The Initials Grid window is changed to a drop-down window in the Contact List window.
* Some face lifts to GUI.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.1:
* The drop down count of dynamic fields is adjustable from 8 to 36. This is configured in the Options.
* When inputting birthday, it is acceptable to define month and day only without year. The format is MM-DD. In the Search Birthday window, the age of a contact won't be calculated if no year is defined.
* When pasting multiple lines of text with predefined labels to create multiple fields, now the program can use only characters at the right end of the last TAB character if any.
* Support advanced management of postal addresses. While each section of a record may have one postal address, you may appoint the postal address of one of the sections to be the postal address. In addition, if you prefer using a company's address, you may set the postal address to be the company's.
* For the Quick View window, you may view postal address only after setting the Quick View style sheet to be "Postal address".
* When inputting names of contacts, you may choose to have fields "Given name", "middle name" and "Surname" only while hiding the full name field, as you may prefer not to use automatic full name analysis. And for tolerating duplicated names, you may still amend the full name.
* When exporting to XML with options, all categories will be exported as well if option "Settings" is checked. Then when importing from such XML to another database, all categories will be restored.
* Add the Communication template for the Quick View window. You may change the template of the Quick View through the Options-View. This template groups data fields of electronic communication by Email, phone, and instant messenger.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.0.2.546:
* Could not delete a section. Fixed.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.0 Beta 5.0.0.539:
* Support change log which is dynamically generated. Thus, synchronization with Plaxo server and SyncML server has become possible.
* Open Contacts Plaxo Sync was developed.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.1.10.527:
* Quick search contacts modified between period.
* Quick search contacts created between period.
* Quick search contacts without category assigned. This function replaces two similar functions which were available in the Searches menu.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.1.7.521:
* Import from Windows Vista Contact files.
* Add hCard.xsl in the Templates directory for transforming selected contact info to HTML with hCard tags.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.1.3.515 Beta:
* Add convenient ways of creating new address book for the same user or new users.
* A shortcut is created on the desktop for you to create new working directory of address book.
* In the Tools menu, you may run function "Create Address Book". You may create for current user, or all users.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.1.0.498:
* In addition to built-in actions upon contact data, you as computer literate can develop custom actions using Web URL query, EXE program, Windows scripts or DLL programs.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.1.0.496 Beta:
* In addition to built-in actions upon contact data, you as computer literate can develop custom actions using Web URL query, EXE program, Windows scripts or DLL programs. Please check the Developer pages for details.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.1.0.495 Beta:
* In addition to built-in actions upon contact data, you as computer literate can develop custom actions using Web URL query, EXE program, Windows scripts or DLL programs.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.0.2.484:
* Importing from MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and vCard becomes customizable through XML templates. With the basic templates provided, you may modify the XML files to change the mappings. Basically you can import almost all fields of the sources.
* Be compatible with "Start PortableApps".
* Batch processing of changing section names of selected contacts. This feature is useful to maintain consistency of section names.
* For frequently used fields like City, State and Country, when you key-in data, you will have a dropdown list of historic items. For example, after you have entered "Chatswood" into field city, next time when you key-in data in this field, and key-in letter "C", you will have "Chatswood" in the dropdown list. In addition, you can make any predefined field to remember a list of historic items. Obviously, some fields like "Phone" and "Email", historic items will not make sense for fast data entry. To enable this feature, you will need to enable this function in the Options window, and enable desired fields to have such feature in the Define Predefined Fields window.
* When exporting selected contacts to XML, you will have more options. This will make the XML more informative in order to transform the XML to other data format using XSLT.
* Support the concept of Myself in database. You may define one of the contacts to be yourself. When exporting to XML, "Myself" may be exported as well in a separated section.
* If you have multiple address book databases to use, you may define a alias for each of these database, so you can be sure which database you are using. The alias is defined in the Database tab of the Options window.
* Export data to XML with categories and linked contacts. And you can export both people and and companies in the same XML if you select contacts in a search window. Thus, this can be used for merging contact info to another address book database.
* From imported XML, recovery categories and linked contacts.
* Import from LDIF files exported from address book of Mozilla/Netscape/Thunderbird. Previous method of importing CSV is obsolete.
* Import from LDIF files exported from other data sources. You will then need to define your own mappings saved in XML.
* Share most settings with Contacts Express, so you may switch between Open Contacts and Contacts Express if installed.
* The commands in the contact list window are presented as dropdown menu.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.8.1.407:
* When importing from CSV, if the CSV fields contain no full name field, but surname and given name, the full name will be composed with these names
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.8.0.405:
* In quick search window, when starting typing the second character of keyword, the window will start showing results, with names and field values matched.
* When defining categories for selected contacts, in the popup categories tree, those categories shared by all selected will be checked and bold, and those shared by some will be bold only.
* In presenting selected contacts in HTML format, the memo fields will have line breaks.
* In the Contact List window, quick search by name is supported. When inputting a character, contacts with initial matching the character will come up; when inputting more than one character, contacts containing the characters will come up. This feature may be enabled through the Options window.
* Confirmation before deleting a category.
* After changing a contact name, the new name will replace the old one, rather than be added to the end of the contact list.
* Support default phone number prefix. You might have a lot phone numbers of local contacts without country/code. When traveling, you might need to dial extra area codes. You may use function "Call after modifying number" to compensate such change. In addition, this feature is handy for you to dial via Skype which requires country code all the time.
* Highlight current field of the Edit Contact window.
* Auto save. When a contact is modified and you want to quit the program or load another contact, the contact will be saved automatically. If you want to discard the changes, press Ctrl+Z.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.7.0.331 Beta:
* The basic info part of the contact edit window can adjust. the edit boxes when resizing the window.
* Support the Geo field with latitude and longitude. The map service can be activated with this field. This feature is handy when you get friends living in the bush where the streets get no name.
* Support relationships between people, and support multiple relationships between 2 contacts optionally.
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